Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-09

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This will lead TO further extension ot
capacity. Coke is scarce.
Out of 1886 pudding furnaces in
Pittsburg seventy-tiye are idle, and The
muck bar production is estimated at
2,l6O tons per day.
The cotton goods manufacturers are
generally well sold up, and many mills
have contracts running far ahead.
All the machine shops of the country
are full of orders and have excellent
prospects for the rest of the year.
There is a quiet distribution of the
Chinese population of the Pacific coast
throughout the eastern states.
Labor organizers are directing their
efforts to hold the membership they
have rather than to increase it.
There are los cotton mills in the
south, of which 80 are in Georgia, y
III ICIltltSStt. anu ~ III [tldpdIljd.
During the next six months over
1000 new enterprises, big and little,
Will spring into existence.
Cigar manufacturers are running
their factories in some localities to their
utmost capacity.
m. l~A4 .,l rlNn ,,.a ~
are greatly pleased at the fall pros
poets for business.
Ten hours is now the legal limit of u
days labor in New York on the street
cars.
The Clearficld miners viii soon have
a fine labor hall al Houtzdale, Pa.
The Kansas City printers have had
their wages advanced to 40 cents.
Union Labor party clubs are being
formed in several western states.
Patterson, n. j., parties talk of
building "A silk-mill in New Orleans.
Coopers in the northwest report trade
prospects improving.
Common labor is now better paid
than 1t has been for years.
The grain elevator capacity of Chi
cago is 28, $50, 900 bushels.
1t costs about a dollar a foot to sink
a gas well.
The expressed opinion of labor dele
gates at the various trade conventions
is that the improving condition of
things justifies the advances they desire
to have made.
FIGURING and grist mills employ 3S
per cent. of all the water-power used;
saw-mills, % per cent. cotton-mills.
y; paper-mills, Z; and woolen-mills,
Al.
The Pottsville (Pa.) silk-mill will
employ from 600 to LOCO hands, and
the building, which will be $50 feet in
length, will, including machinery, cost
$500, 600.
The western lumber manufacturers
are trying to demonstrate hat prices
will be higher next fall, but buyers are
not acting on that supposition.
Last year the south made $40, 600, 900
out of 20, 900, 900 gallons of c%otton-seed
oil, and used only one-iifth of the
available product.
Quite q number of mechanics have
found employment in Kentucky and
Tennessee during the past three
months.
At Dallas, Texas, a half-million dol
lar cotton mill is to be built. The
Roanoke Cotton Mills, Va, are to have
a capital Of $250,000. Another cot
ton mill is to be started at Columbia,
S. G., with a capital of $500, 900.
The question of cooperation is not
favorably considered in the Knights
assemblies, and the land theories of
George, while favorably regarded at a
distance, are not considered good mat
terS to advance wages with.
A great many Philadelphia made
boilers are finding their way into
eastern mills and factories. Four 125
horse power safety boilers have just
been put in at East Wareham, Mass.
The Kansas City carpenters are look
ing a long way ahead. They
that they won't work more than eight
hours after next June, and want 80
cents an hour.
The miners are earnestly endeavor-
ing to avert strikes in the future, and,
l met with half the candor they feel.
measures will be devised by which
| Justice can be done.
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